{"id":168,"date":"2026-02-16T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/?p=168"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:00:49","slug":"sticky-situation-why-the-nyc-council-is-considering-a-ban-on-glue-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/2026\/02\/16\/sticky-situation-why-the-nyc-council-is-considering-a-ban-on-glue-traps\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticky situation: Why the NYC Council is considering a ban on glue traps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AMNY \u2013\u2013 However, banning glue traps does more than show mercy to animals deemed pests. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), glue traps can even lead to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthy-pets\/rodent-control\/trap-up.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">humans getting sick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/nyc-council-proposed-ban-on-glue-traps\/\">Read more<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMNY \u2013\u2013 However, banning glue traps does more than show mercy to animals deemed pests. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), glue traps can even lead to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthy-pets\/rodent-control\/trap-up.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">humans getting sick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/nyc-council-proposed-ban-on-glue-traps\/\">Read more<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}